Dan L\u00f3pez de Sa<\/p>\n
University of Barcelona<\/p>\n
06 October 2017, 16:00<\/strong><\/p>\n Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa<\/strong><\/p>\n Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o <\/strong>(Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong> Some disputes are verbal\u2014in metaphysics (and philosophy) as well as elsewhere. That the disputes are verbal is often taken to express a certain form of skepticism about metaphysics (or perhaps about philosophy more generally): the domains in question are defective, one hears, in that the disputes are \u201cmerely\u201d verbal<\/em>, as opposed to involving substantial<\/em> questions. This is misguided. Some philosophers, including notably David Chalmers (2011), David Plunket (2015), and Amie Thomasson (2017), have recently emphasized how many disputes are, although verbal, not \u201cmerely verbal\u201d but actually quite significant<\/em>. Both Plunket and Thomasson contend that some, perhaps many, disputes in metaphysics (and philosophy) are to be seen as so-called \u201cmetalinguistic negotiations\u201d<\/em>. Whether there exist cases of metalinguistic negotiation\u2014in general, let alone in metaphysics (and philosophy)\u2014is, however, interesting in itself but controversial. A controversy one can avoid when the purpose is vindicating the significance of (some) verbal disputes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dan L\u00f3pez de Sa University of Barcelona Significant Verbal Disputes and So-Called \u201cMetalinguistic Negotiations\u201d 06 October 2017, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Some disputes are verbal\u2014in metaphysics (and philosophy) as well as elsewhere. That the disputes are verbal is often taken to express a certain form of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}